NEW LOWER PRICE!! WOW!!Since its announcement of impending release a
few months back, this has had one panting in anticipation to hear the music
inscribed in its groove. Danny Wilson of Danny & The Champions, Robin Bennett
from The Dreaming Spires
and Tony Poole, the estimable 12 string
maestro of Starry Eyed & Laughing
fame, have joined forces on a brilliant debut that displays, not only in the now
what theyre capable of, but also displays loads of promise for what may still
even lay ahead for these three talented gentlemen.How did three songwriters, all steeped in
American music, two of them with a particular penchant for the West Coast
variety and one of them armed with a particularly lethal 12 string
Rickenbacker, get together? Wilson, an inveterate songwriter, had teamed up
with Bennett writing songs together via Facetime and they decided that Poole,
who has produced both of them in the past, was a perfect fit for the songs.Poole had a bunch of songs in his own grab
bag which were added to the mix and he recorded the basic tracks in his home
studio over a bunch of weekends. The result is this 11 song collection which,
for several reasons (a trio, the name of the band, the album cover) has seen
them being compared to Crosby Stills & Nash (and Young although there are
only three of them) but a more apt comparison might be to The Traveling
Wilburys (not a bad thing).Hearing the
news of this all-star collaboration was somewhat equivalent to being told that
everyone had lied and that Santa Claus did exist. Well, maybe some exaggeration there, but the
concept was exciting and intriguing and as some songs and videos emerged along
with reports of their initial live shows the die was surely cast, this might be
something special.The Wilburys'
influence is evident from the opening rush of Soon
Enough which has a sheer joie de vivre in its
Tom Petty-like power pop jangle but the band transcend any such comparison as
the song powers on with references to Junior Parker's Mystery Train and a
blistering 12 string raga rock solo which blasts the song into the 5th
Dimension. And so it goes throughout
the album. It wears its heart on its sleeve pumping a rich stew of influences -
Beatles, Kinks, CS&N, Byrds - throughout, but the whole is greater than the
parts as the trio's songs stand up well on their own two feet, there's not one
dud here and the musical architecture supporting them is just the icing on the
cake.It would take a hard heart not to
appreciate the chiming beauty of Funny Guys with its
backward guitars, Searchers-like Merseybeat beat and Wilson's soulful voice as
he takes the song on a left field turn into outer space. Elsewhere they deliver
some delicious low key delicacies draped in a mild psychedelic fuzz with The Thing That You Called Love approaching Gene Clark's
baroque folk rock melancholy and The OtherSide of The Sky recalling Lennon circa 1970 while Hide Behind a Smile goes further back quoting The Beatles'
In My Life on guitar towards the end. Meanwhile
there's a nod to The Kinks' unique take on whimsical psychedelia on Wilson General Store.The album talks to today as much as it talks to the past and the band
are to be congratulated for such an endeavour. A sure contender for album of the year. 
BlabbernSmoke.comGREAT!!

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